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Our History Is the Future

by Nick Estes

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”

2 posts
Extreme Cities

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis

18 posts
Climate Leviathan

by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright

How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse

6 posts
The Progress of This Storm

by Andreas Malm

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other

7 posts

Verso 2017 Mixtape

by Verso Books

FREE ebook collection of extracts from our top books of 2017

1 post
Humankind

by Timothy Morton

A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humans

5 posts
How Did We Get into This Mess?

by George Monbiot

Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it

18 posts
The Shock of the Anthropocene

by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”

22 posts

Molecular Red

by McKenzie Wark

Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century

63 posts
The Lamentations of Zeno

by Ilija Trojanow

A literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the Antarctic

14 posts
Fossil Capital

by Andreas Malm

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power

36 posts
Capitalism in the Web of Life

by Jason W. Moore

“Moore’s radical and rigorous work is, and richly deserves to be, agenda-setting.” – China Miéville

27 posts

The Secret World of Oil

by Ken Silverstein

“An engaging journey through the sector’s murkiest crevices, shot through with ill-concealed disgust at the corruption at its heart.” —Financial Times

20 posts
The Earth

by Hubert Krivine

How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth

5 posts
The New Prophets of Capital

by Nicole Aschoff

A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah

11 posts
The Oil Road

by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

A journey along a controversial European pipeline becomes a profound exploration of the oil economy.

13 posts

Carbon Democracy

by Timothy Mitchell

How oil undermines democracy, and our ability to address the environmental crisis

29 posts
Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology

by André Gorz
Against the background of recent technological developments, Gorz's major new book explores the political agendas facing both right and left in the midst of the transformations of the nature of work and the structure of the workforce.
8 posts
Green Gone Wrong

by Heather Rogers

Trenchant exposé of the myths of “green capitalism”.

12 posts
I’m With the Bears

Edited by Mark Martin
“This collection is a jolt out of our armchairs, a call to arms ... written with verve and style”—Chicago Tribune
29 posts

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